--- title: Cats scratch to keep their claws in good shape and to leave scent fr… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Cats scratch to keep their claws in good shape and to leave scent from glands in their paws; a scratching post near the spot they like can save the sofa. Who acts: Cats, pupils, scratching post. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cats, pupils, scratching post), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:15 # text = Cats scratch to keep their claws in good shape and to leave scent from glands in their paws; a scratching post near the spot they like can save the sofa. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 13 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 scratching scratching NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | present | Cats | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | pupils's claws | | good shape | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent claw=Theme in shape=Location | | 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | scent | | glands in pupils's paws | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme scent=Source from gland=Destination | | 4 | **like** | present | pupils *= pupil* | the spot *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spot=Theme | | 5 | **save** | can | a scratching post near the spot | the sofa | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sofa=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:15`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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